What's on the back of your plug?

[SAUERKRAUT]

Question for you Plugaholics:

1. Bucktail
2. Feathers
3. Fake stuff like FisHair
4. Combination of 1,2,3 above
5. Nothing at all
6. Other**
**Eelskin as an answer doesn't count. That is a whole separate
category

I really like feathers, but they don't hold up well. I tend to put a big mop of feathers on the back of my Numbskull, Xman hand-me-down, reject plugs--in order to get them to work.

[numbskull]

You should try these.
Big bass eat them.

[piemma]

VMC 5/0 or 6/0 Siwash bucktail

[JohnR]

Bucktail or whatever the builder recommends

Or nekkid

(usually bucktail because that is all I grab)

[tlapinski]

I pretty much just use bucktail hair or feathers, but different plugs have different tails depending on how the it fishes best for me. Most of the time they get a flag of some sort whether a light wire or cut-off siwash when - it comes down to balancing the plug. A few swim best naked but I generally tie the tails sparsely to add visual appeal without limiting the swim.

[rphud]

check out what is on the back end of most GRS plugs, get's me thinking....

[DZ]

6. Another treble

I just never did the dressed rear hook very much with the exception of a stubby needle and very rare occasion on the Atom Junior

[Slipknot]

It really depends on the plug.
I use flashaboo mylar stuff on light swimmers like yozuri minnows and sometimes darters if the tail hook needs to be lightweight with not much resistance, some just a tag with the mylar.
I use feathers on polaris poppers a lot and other popping plugs. Also feathers are great on some needlefish plugs.
I like bucktail on swimmers and also mix in some crystal flash

for pencil poppers they mostly are bare, but there are times that you want a smaller pencil and it HAS to have something on the tailhook like a feather or flashaboo.

[MAKAI]

Been switching to single in line hooks. No mess, no fuss, no trebles in fish eyes so far. Hook up ratio is still good.
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[Cool Beans]

Q: What's on the back of your plug?

A: Best Answer is a big fat FISH

[JLH]

The vast majority of time it's just a flag made up or bucktail and/or feathers. I haven't missed having a second or third hook on the back of most plugs the last couple of seasons.

[tysdad115]

Different plugs get different hooks. But every single plug with a rear hook gets the barbs crushed because those are what I've impaled myself with more than a few times.

[SAUERKRAUT]

Originally Posted by tlapinski

I pretty much just use bucktail hair or feathers, but different plugs have different tails depending on how the it fishes best for me. Most of the time they get a flag of some sort whether a light wire or cut-off siwash when - it comes down to balancing the plug. A few swim best naked but I generally tie the tails sparsely to add visual appeal without limiting the swim.

Some good points here, Mr. T. A trout fisherman/tyer once told me feathers for streamers were more aerodynamic than bucktail. Feathers have the look and configuration of a drowned cat out of water; but when they are in the water, they fill out. In other words, they fold up against the plug on the way out (cast).

But like I said, feathers don't hold up as well as bucktail. Incidentally, I get my feathers at Michael's Art Supply, my wife's favorite store. Maybe that's why my cheapo feathers don't last too long.

For just hookless flags, I have done okay tying the material on brass wire eyes (for sinker molds). You get a ton of them in a package.

I certainly agree with the many who rig to put LESS hooks on a plug rather than more-- changing out a rear treble for a Siwash single; or just flagging the plug and eliminating the treble completely.

[Linesider82]

Otter tail on a TA clip to a SS popper, single treble on belly.
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